eye make the claim that he saw the events of pearl harbor and otheother things that you alreay mentioned prior on the air and that he was a visionary in those aspects, but he was caught in contemporary times in basically the time period that he was writing. and -- >> ok. >> caller: that's my perspecti perspective. >> ok. thanks very much for that. susan beegle, we need to get to 1961 at some point and his death. he died at his own hand. that's correct? >> write. ernest hemmingway committed suicide in 1961. it's a very complex question. lots of dirent reasons for it. but first, let me start out by saying that hemmingway did suffer from what we believe now is a bipolar, depressive mood disorder and that it was an inherited one. hemmingway's father committed suicide in 1929, actually, as hemmingway was returning to key west. and of the six hemmingway children, he was one of six children, three wound up committing suicide and very sadly, this is also traveled into a third generation. so, he suffered from depression and mood swings all of his life. he dealt with it i think very heroicly. cont